How to create a webrev from the top level directory

[Pete Brunet]

Thanks Kelly, I guess either this page needs to be updated to give
instructions on installing Forest or on how to do a webrev without Forest.

http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Mac+OS+X+Port

Pete

On 12/20/11 6:10 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> You need the Mercurial forest extension working, and I usually use this:
>
>     webrev -f -N -o somedir
>
> The -N says I only want a webrev of the edited working set files.
>
> Yeah I know, the forest extension is a pain. Sorry.
>
> -kto
>
> On Dec 20, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Pete Brunet wrote:
>
>> I've been asked to create a webrev.  According to
>> http://openjdk.java.net/guide/webrevHelp.html
>> from the toplevel directory (macosx-port) I should execute
>> ksh ./make/scripts/webrev.ksh -f
>> but that produced a lot of error messages so I did
>> cd jdk
>> ksh ../make/scripts/webrev.ksh
>> and that created my webrev
>>
>> What is the proper command to get it to work from the parent directory?
>>
>> Pete